Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 11
“I will give you anything you ask, if I have that thing.”
Who acts: stranger, you · What happens: give, ask, have · To what, where: anything, you, thing
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the stranger = stranger | anything | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the stranger = stranger | that thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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